Video in Linux: Which program is the best?

**hajime** · 09-19-2006

Hi mates, I am a newbie to Linux, but I think I am getting more less OK in it.
However, the video players I found were not very good, since there were
lots of codecs missing...

>Which program would you recommend me to download to see .mpg,.avi..?
>The same question, for films in DVDs.

Thank yuo, dudes.

**devils casper** · 09-19-2006

Hi !

all players are almost same. it depends on engine used by these. if you install neccessary codecs then all players will play mp3, .mpg or avi.
codecs installation depends on distro in question.

which distro are you using ? Momonga ? i think its like RH / Fedora Core.
use yum to install xmms and xmms-mp3 for .mp3....

$ yum -y install xmms xmms-mp3

for .mpeg, avi.... i am using xine

$ yum -y install xine xine-lib xine-skins

.... casper ....

**Javasnob** · 09-19-2006

I would also recommend mplayer. It's more command line oriented, but if that's what you want...=D

**d38dm8nw81k1ng** · 09-19-2006

mplayer seems to work best for me too. it also has the plugin for firefox

**hajime** · 09-19-2006

Hi dudes. I really appreciated your help but it didn't work completely,
although it started to work at the beginning. I will post what I got in the
command lines:

bash-3.1$ $ yum -y install xmms xmms-mp3
bash: $: command not found
bash-3.1$ yum -y install xmms xmms-mp3
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
You need to be root to perform this command.
bash-3.1$ su
パスワード(P):
[root@localhost hajime]# yum -y install xmms xmms-mp3
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
base [1/2]
base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
updates-released [2/2]
updates-released 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Excluding Packages in global exclude list
Finished
Parsing package install arguments
No Match for argument: xmms-mp3
Nothing to do
[root@localhost hajime]# yum -y install xine xine-lib xine-skins
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
base [1/2]
updates-released [2/2]
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Excluding Packages in global exclude list
Finished
Parsing package install arguments
No Match for argument: xine
Nothing to do
[root@localhost hajime]# xine
xine (X11 gui) - 無償の動画プレイヤー v0.99.4.
(c) 2000-2004 xine チーム

Any ideas, mates?
See you!

**devils casper** · 09-19-2006

Hi !!

xine and xmms are available in freshrpms repository...... yum's output displaying that you didn't install freshrpms repo yet......

on terminal execute these commands......

Code:

$rpm -ivh http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/fedora/linux/5/freshrpms-release/freshrpms-release-1.1-1.fc.noarch.rpm

Code:

$ rpm --import http://freshrpms.net/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.txt

you should be connected to internet. try yum again.......

for more details, check this article and look for YUM... follow instructions.......

.... casper ....

**hajime** · 09-20-2006

Oh, this time it doesn't work because it says this:
[root@localhost hajime]# yum -y install xine xine-lib xine-skins
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
dries [1/5]
http://ftp.belnet.be/packages/dries....ta/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 05:12:00 GMT
Server: Apache
Content-Length: 373
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Trying other mirror.
Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: dries
failure: repodata/repomd.xml from dries: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
Error: failure: repodata/repomd.xml from dries: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.

But now, everytime I type "yum" and the name of any of those 2 players,
automatically it searched in those URLs...how can I remove that?

**devils casper** · 09-20-2006

Hii !!

dries [1/5]

dries ??? how you added this dries repository. my links were for freshrpms. open file /etc/yum.repos.d/dries.repo,
look for "enable". change its value to 0

where is freshrpms repo ? did you install its rpm ???

.... casper ....

**hajime** · 09-20-2006

[root@localhost hajime]# cat /etc/yum.repos.d/dries.repo
[dries]
name=Extra Fedora rpms dries - $releasever - $basearch
baseurl=http://ftp.belnet.be/packages/dries.ulyssis.org/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/dries/RPMS/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1

[root@localhost hajime]# cat /etc/yum.repos.d/dries.repo/enable
cat: /etc/yum.repos.d/dries.repo/enable: ディレクトリではありません
[root@localhost hajime]# cd /etc/yum.repos.d/dries.repo/
bash: cd: /etc/yum.repos.d/dries.repo/: ディレクトリではありません
[root@localhost hajime]# cd /etc/yum.repos.d/dries.repo
bash: cd: /etc/yum.repos.d/dries.repo: ディレクトリではありません
[root@localhost hajime]# cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
[root@localhost yum.repos.d]# dir
dries.repo macromedia.repo~ momonga-updates.repo
freshrpms.repo momonga-devel.repo momonga.repo
macromedia.repo momonga-local-devel.repo
[root@localhost yum.repos.d]# enable
enable .
enable :
enable [
enable alias
enable bg
enable bind
enable break
enable builtin
enable caller
enable cd
enable command
enable compgen
enable complete
enable continue
enable declare
enable dirs
enable disown
enable echo
enable enable
enable eval
enable exec
enable exit
enable export
enable false
enable fc
enable fg
enable getopts
enable hash
enable help
enable history
enable jobs
enable kill
enable let
enable local
enable logout
enable popd
enable printf
enable pushd
enable pwd
enable read
enable readonly
enable return
enable set
enable shift
enable shopt
enable source
enable suspend
enable test
enable times
enable trap
enable true
enable type
enable typeset
enable ulimit
enable umask
enable unalias
enable unset
enable wait
[root@localhost yum.repos.d]# enable 1
bash: enable: 1: not a shell builtin

Yeah mate, I don't understand either how that damn "dries" appeared...
I think it was when looking for some mirrors,maybe...

I think the .rpms are installed, the problem comes when using "yum", because
I think automatically it searches in some strange URLs... do you know how to
change that?(where the dumb PC searches).

**devils casper** · 09-20-2006

Hi

[root@localhost hajime]# cat /etc/yum.repos.d/dries.repo
[dries]
name=Extra Fedora rpms dries - $releasever - $basearch
baseurl=http://ftp.belnet.be/packages/dries.ulyssis.org/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/dries/RPMS/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1

log in as root and edit this file.

gedit /etc/yum.repos.d/dries.repo

change enable=1 to enable=0

save this file. now edit freshrpms.repo file

gedit /etc/yum.repos.d/freshrpms.repo

change enable=0 to enable=1

save this file........ execute command....

yum clean all

.... casper ....

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